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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:11:43 -0400
From:      "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com>
To:        "David G Andersen" <danderse@cs.utah.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeSSH
Message-ID:  <00a801bf158d$421afc20$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com>
References:  <199910131428.KAA11701@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199910131436.IAA02185@faith.cs.utah.edu>

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Hi All,

>    It strikes me that having the base system be slightly more decomposed
> could be advantageous.  It would be great to be able to do something like:
>
>    pkg_delete lp
>    pkg_delete yp
>
>    Has anyone done/tried this in the past, and if so, what was the
> reaction?  Or what do people think?  I realize this sounds a bit like the
> "everything is an rpm or dpkg" methodology from Linux, but as long as the
> 'base' packages are handled automatically, then it shouldn't impose the
> same inconvenience.


I think that it would be the next best thing since the package/ports system
(as well as a logical step forward). I would love to see most of the things
that installed with a "make world" be also registered in the package
database. This would make things like upgrading bind, removing sendmail etc
a lot easier.

However I think that this discussion goes beyond the scope of the "security"
mailing list. I copied it to the "current" and "stable" lists as well. I
guess the discussion should be held in "current"...


Patrick.

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